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

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.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices

In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

By your work you show what you love and what you know.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Boxing is not for killing each other.

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.