People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

We shouldn't have free speech.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.

Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project.

I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven

Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might bean overture for sarcasm.

The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a difference and they are doing it out of passion.