The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, “Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

Your soul was like a network of spittle.

I walked exclusively on the sidewalks. I was a city girl. I've never been countrified.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.