A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence to change.

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

In my age group I don't know a single woman who is as successful as I am. I am the total exception. You can be very proud of it. But you are also very isolated.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'