Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.