If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.