People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

If there are not mothers, where will men come from and who will feed them?

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed