Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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.

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.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears.

Don't feel moments in a life, feel lives in a moment

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.