Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself.