You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Use everything you have to become what they said you couldn't

To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.