Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

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.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'