You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.

The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.