Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.