The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

When action grows unprofitable gather information when information grows unprofitable sleep.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end.

I think I love you, Bennett. Probably not relevant at the moment so no need to say thanks.

Dreaming is good—especially if you dream when you are awake. Remember dreams will remain a dream if you don’t act on them.

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.