In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

A duck tastes the same whether they're shot sitting or flying.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down unburden their wrinkled gray bodies and soar away light spirits at the end.

Don't peak in high school.

Be who you are and be that well.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had scared everybody else off DiMaggio. But we risked $25,000 in cash and five players, and landed a star whom I would not sell for $250,000.

Lets just enjoy what we have now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.