Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

I just keep pinching myself that that's my wife.

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.