To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

It's not about believing in yourself

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.