"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it."

"It is a essential truth that serenity begins the moment you cease demanding that the external world conform."

"It is a subtle truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

"To conquer fear is to realize that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."