Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.

I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.

What I do is called 'fishing.' If it was easy, we would refer to it as 'catching,' and there would be a lot more people doing it.

The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

There is no victory without pain.

I'm the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I've been consistent with my skincare.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.

All of these stories bounced around in my mind for a long time.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.