Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.