Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book

You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

I'm going to miss everybody but unfortunately... it's time to go

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Heaven is within you.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.