Time is the notion of "before and after". |

The total number of minds in the universe is one. |

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |

If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, a life-altering interruption in their education or career, and the sudden lifelong responsibility for another human being, I think they'd expect a choice in the matter. |

If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking. |

American leaders - eternally proving this place to be a land of cowards built by slaves on the bones of indigenous peoples. |

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. |

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. |

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. |

We can only learn to love by loving. |

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. |

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. |

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. |

Love is the quality of attention we pay to things. Love is both the shrine and the idol. |

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. |

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? |

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. |

Quiet people have the loudest minds. |

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. |

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. |

People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. |

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. |

Most people think their experiences show them who they are, not what they have chosen. They do not know they have the ability to shape their experiences like a potter shapes clay. You are the artist and you are also the art that is being created. You choose the colours, where to add and remove clay, and you determine whether the art will be dark and depressing or light and joyful. There is no limit to your creative capacity. |

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. |