Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

Girls tend to get seduced through their ears. Guys tend to get seduced through their eyes.

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.

Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

We human beings are a lot more resilient than we often realize. Resilient and perseverant.

How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

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