When you have self-respect, you have enough.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.

All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.