You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction.

Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

The termites have got me.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.