We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.