Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.

Who you are is much greater than who you pretend to be

If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.