Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

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.

The greater your inner light the brighter your outer world.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Equals make the best friends.

It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.

Sometimes, I'm too smart for my own good.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.