The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.