Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, "Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career." The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near wanting nothing.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Living with integrity means not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.

People have confidence in women to get them out of trouble.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Know the ship you sail on. Know its timbers. Deep the fjord waters where you sail, steep the cliffs, deep into the unknown coast goes the winding fjord.