There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.