If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Truth usually stammers at first.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.