Trust your gut. Respect and show up for yourself or no one else will. Show up for your friends too.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

It really doesn't bother me, " she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

Hide me from day's garish eye.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.