A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

He was the one I wasn't looking for.

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.