It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Be optimistic and enthusiastic about your dreams.

Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.