Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

The spirit gives life.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first.

The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

I went to the movies with my little Peggy Sue, I had a dip there in my lip just like I always do.