You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

I resolve to do my very best in everything.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.