“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.”

“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”

“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”