“The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.”

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Christ was the first feminist and because of that I’ve learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I’d have been convicted for high treason.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow…we become more valuable human beings.

Getting fit is a political act – you are taking charge of your life.

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.

I like to think both – it’s not either/or. It’s and.

It is never too late to master your weaknesses.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.

One of my strongest gifts is that I’m pretty straightforward.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It’s not as easy as it looks!

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.

It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.