You can face fear, or feel it, her dad used to say. … Feel it, and it eats you alive. Face it, and you get to kick some ugly alien butt. Okay, he never said that. I wonder if they even have butts.

During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.

Ecological awareness expands the context of life

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

Most people view health only in the physical sense, but I view it also in the mental, spiritual, and emotional sense.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.