Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Little bundle of contradictions

I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Leaders who lack passion cost everyone who follows.

Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.