The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Life has been full of evil, and if you don't start asking the right questions, the evil is going to be the end of you.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.