I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

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.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

Have faith, because life changes fast, I've learned that much.

How could you be sad, when you can sing?

Success is 99 percent failure.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.