You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.