No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.