“Children have deep devotion to life and this devotion is beautifully expressed through the free play. Objects of play should be as simple as possible, to allow the power of imagination to flourish. Buying ‘perfect’, expensive toys, rob the children of an ability to see beauty in a stone or a shell.”

“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.”

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”

“If you really love someone, you shouldn’t be scared of losing, since real love is not having but wanting happy.”

“Aingeal, there is only one thing on my body that's ten inches long, and if you'll recall, the scar is no' it.”

“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”

“Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.”