We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

What's the rule for fighting? Hit the soft parts with your hand and the hard parts with a utensil?

Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

As long as you keep your mind fully focused on the brighter side of your life, those who wish for your downfall, would only be wasting their time and energy in vain.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.