Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

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.

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

Vulnerability does not take away your strength

You forgive me coz you are great

To get it right be born with luck or else make it.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.