Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then -- we elected them.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time it, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

In parts of the world, people still pray in the streets. In this country they're called pedestrians.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.