I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.