You know those goals you've set for yourself, those dreams you've been waiting for the perfect time to live out? It's time!

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

With God, everything will work for my good.

If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous.

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.