My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

Allow yourself to lose your way.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

I cannot get close to any you.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."