“We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face”

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.

If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.

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.