Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Make sure your life is a rare entertainment! It doesn't take anything drastic. You needn't be gorgeous or wealthy or smart, just very enthusiastic!

I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

Work faster, smarter and harder

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

You are doing something very sacred here, something very daring, during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself, and then creating yourself anew, in each golden moment of now.

As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.