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.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

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

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.

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.

Imagination is sacred gift.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful.

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.