Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.