Wisdom

As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... But it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

One thing hatred can do very well is to attack what it hates!

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously 'born' in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king truth comes riding on a donkey symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Writers are the ink of society.

If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

The fact is: Jesus wrote not a solitary word that survives. Equally astounding is historical silence: not a single historical account refers to him during his lifetime from any source whatsoever, Roman or Jewish, official or personal.

Shukladhyan (pure contemplation of the Self, the Soul) means focused awareness of the eternal form of the Self, the Soul. Dhyan (contemplation or one’s focused effort) is a natural thing. And in pure applied awareness as Pure Soul (shuddha upayog), one must do spiritual effort with awareness of the separation of the Self and non-Self.

To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change.

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: 'Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.

The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.