Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get ready to; or before I go on a first date, I play it to feel sexy.

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.