Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

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.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.