Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

You will get your difficulties with the point electron.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.