If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

I really like to act, and I really like to perform. I enjoy producing as well.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs if were willing to work with ideas from the pool of history both distant and more recent despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

I have found it to be true that the older Ive become the better my life has become.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.