It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out."I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

Self-respect is the root of discipline

Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.

Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to know what happens next. They force you to tell a story.