Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

I owe my father everything.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.