The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Success is a process, not an event.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

I guess I was a bit of a tomboy. I liked to catch frogs in the ditch, play soccer with my brother’s friends and play video games.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.