My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.