Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... but it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.