Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

IAR is policy, always has been.

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.