For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.