As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

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.

I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky.

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I can't eat spaghetti. There's too many of them.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.