My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.