There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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.

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

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.

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

I travel a lot I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

Baeyer-a chemist who was more of an encyclopedist than a researcher.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.