It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in 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.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

For the most part, if you have an isolated place, it's sort of nice to have a communal vibe.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.