Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

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.

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

Meeting her was luck.Knowing her was maddening.Loving her is destiny.

I didn't read the book. I burned it after the first sentence.

Home is the nesting ground for goodness to spring forth. Schools, churches and society influences but home is essential in the development and growth process.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.