What steps can I take to reduce the clutter so that I may live simply and joyously?

There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.

The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.

There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.