Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.

You cannot have qualifications without experience

Death is the final destiny of every soul.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.