"What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."

"A quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us."

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

"My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted."

"A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center."