Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized people now do in every department of life, you must pursue and inquire and explore every possibility and seek everywhere and try everything.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.