What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

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.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

Love lives in the humblest of places. It doesn't matter how big your house is, how nice your car is, how big your bank vault is...it only matters how much your heart can hold.

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

Fish Ponies! I put them on the ceiling!" -Tyson

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.