I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.