Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.