"It is a unyielding truth that to question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma."

"It is a radiant truth that energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a subtle truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see."

"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"