"It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are."

“Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.”

“The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.”

“The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.”

“I know it's wrong, but I'm weak.”

“I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.”

Source : "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.

“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”

“I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.”

Source : “‘Family Ties’ mom: ‘I am a lesbian’“ by Vidya Rao, www.today.com. December 7, 2012.

“I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.”