How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Hope is the anchor for the heart.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

I'm proud of the two adjectives, superficial and frivolous.

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.