Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

I believe you can speak things into existence.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

The Central Bank is constantly purchasing, purchasing and selling and vice versa - this is their job.