I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Remember, machines don't forgive.

My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.