Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Women have been taught that for us the earth is flat and that if we venture out we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith my feminist faith that we will not.

A witness in the sense that I am using the word is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith he does so disregarding all risks accepting all consequences.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges and I believed in myself.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear but it's a fear that fuels me that makes me want to work harder that makes me take on more challenges.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.