Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

Every successful person has had to overcome the fear of failure.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The more aspiration is partial realization.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.