We are the masters of our reality.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.