the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.

Love is the magnetic and attracting force between you and meand the beauty, and the world and everything in it.

Sow wisdom today, and you will reap success tomorrow.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

The queen had passed him, so close he'd felt the stir of air, and he guessed that if she had turned her head, only a little, and met his eyes, he might have died right there.

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.