Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

In my wildest dreams i never thought- well, I never thought I'd work

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.