I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

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.

Open your heart! Even in trying times. Relax. Breathe. Allow. Feel lighter, happier, and at peace.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

No matter that if we are at our top or down at bottom , hope that everyone will give a lot of love to us .

I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words