Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.