Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.

Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.

Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.

In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills

With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith.

I'm eradicating the word Protestant even out of my vocabulary. .. I'm protesting anything. .. it's time for Catholics and non-Catholics to come together as one in the Spirit and one in the Lord.