These were reflections that required some time to soften

I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.

Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.