You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

I am not young enough to know everything.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.