"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom."

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

"As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best."

"Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge."

"Music is my religion."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."