Doors close. That's life, but they don't necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.