A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.