The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

I want to live in a world where 'normal' is an insult.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.