"I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."

"LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish."

"Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."

"You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory."

"Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine."

"Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself."

"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime."

"Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?"

"You can't connect the dots looking forward"

"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

"Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that."

"Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world."

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

"He not busy being born is busy dying."