The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.