This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.

you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.

See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.