"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

"It is a quiet truth that to know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment."

"I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard."

"It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean."

"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

"I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other."