My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

If we talk about the environment for example we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

Our dreams are firsthand creations rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming we partake of the power of the Spirit the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage disappointment with cheerfulness and trial with humility.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is rather the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in then it has my admiration.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010 and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed the capacity is in future shock.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit beauty intelligence the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

The attitude and capacity of the factory the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.