Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Have the courage of your desire.

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

I have the happiness of the passing moment and what more can mortal ask?

...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.

remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.