The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

I think to many people, textured curls still signify 'difference.' And kids like to pick on what's different.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.