My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?

But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake." Morelli said. "I'll find you." "You are such a cop." "Tell me about it.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.