You may have what it takes to be successful, but if you lose yourself in someone else's priorities or societal expectations, you will be judged not by your potential but rather by your history

No one can take better care of you than you yourself.

As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... but it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy.

A person should be important to you for you to be also important to the person so that you will be important to any other person.

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.