• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

• I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving.

• I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.