Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

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.

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence.

I do everything the same, like nothing ever happened to me.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

I don't have to prove anything.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.