"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Kindness is the invisible thread that binds all kindred spirits together. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

"Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."

"I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place."