You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

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.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

All is change all yields its place and goes.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

I'm an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can't.

Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.