I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

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.

Not worried about yesterday. No sense worrying about tomorrow. Today, I conquer. Join me. #Namaste #CarpeDiem #Push

A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.

What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.