Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams

Some people are monogamous from the get-go while other date as many people as possible until you have "that conversation." Have the conversation at the start so that everyone is clear.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.