Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

The quieter you can make your mind, the more you've invoked your will.

I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

Courage makes the things easier!

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.