To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.