“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

Courage is exhilarating.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.

Be confident, not certain

A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.

We do not have to become heroes overnight.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Daughters are special! Appreciate them, admire them and respect them.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I admire the inner peace I found.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.