We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.

Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.