Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly.

The sustaining taste of victory can never be replaced by the cold metal of a trophy.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another.