In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Nuestra expectativa debe de ser mayor en nosotros mismos que en las demás personas.

Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.

Respect is primary.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

She's the nicest person I know." Zila chewed on her lower lip. "Well, the second nicest. Avry's the first.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.