The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.

I think all art is subjective - that whoever's watching it or listening to it will decide whether it's good or bad.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.