I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

The true understanding of life and its purposes comes from an understanding of consciousness.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.