I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. – Lord Krishna.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.

I can't tan naturally.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.