"The foundation of joy is hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"It is a humble truth that energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable."

"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."

"I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences."

"All philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."