They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

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.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Your personal identity very much depends on the experience of the present moment and as the experience changes, your identity too change with it.

I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.