And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

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.

I've learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Fashion passes, but style remains.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with.