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

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.

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.

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

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.

we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change, start focusing on what you can.

A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light, –the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.

A lot of that will depend on who the person is on [Donald] Trump's, you know, right hand side, whether it's [Stephen] Bannon or whether it's [Reince] Priebus.

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.