It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Meaning can be found in action.

The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors.

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.

I'm really hoping just to keep building on what we're doing. You have to build your core business first which is really important.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.