A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

No one has a favorite book - they just fall in love with the spell the author put into the pages.

You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

Or people who have one baby and go buy a minivan... how big is your baby?

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

We always had the idea that there might be two slightly different versions of the same thing.

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

At home the very walls lend you strength.