You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

Experience is not what happens to a man

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Displaced societies are of value. Their issues are our issues.

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!