Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.