Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

I don’t know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don’t know how much history young women today know about those battles.
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

Hope is a waking dream. ~ Aristotle

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. ~ Anatole France

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. ~ Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw

They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. ~ Henry Bromel

We need men who can dream of things that never were. ~ John F. Kennedy

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

We all grow up with the weight of history on us.  Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.  ~Shirley Abbott

The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.  ~Erma Bombeck

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~Jane Howard

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.  ~Barbara Bush

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

Money is a never-ending problem.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it’s with you all the time.

I  always want more.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see – Anonymous

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know. – Janice Markowitz

People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

• We are here to add what we can from life, not to get what we can – William Osler
• Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin
• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.- Khalil Gibran
• I dream for a living. – Steven Spielberg
• You can’t be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to d, and it will probably be color. -Vincent van Gogh

* Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

* Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. – Michael Jordan

* To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France

* Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. – David Ogilvy

* I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright

* The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it – Michelangelo

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” — Pablo Picasso

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King