What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

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.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.