I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.