If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Justice is a blindfolded woman.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Beware what you speak, ' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.