I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Grow enough to be consistently happy.

If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

New York is who I am.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.