When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

O Luke, I would not lose thee as I lostDarth Vader. His betrayal made my lifeA bleak and tragic thing. Thy loss untoThe dark would make my death a hellish, coldEternity.

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.

A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

The real value in everything you do is in the details.