I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.