I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

A man's concept of God creates his attitude towards the hour in which he lives.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.