As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!

I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

Good people drink good beer.

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.