When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.