Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.