My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.

The power of giving is beyond measure.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East