I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

Her take is that I'm just a late bloomer - that I'm taking forever to ruin my life, she's running out of patience.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.