A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

Love is nature's psychotherapy.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.

Those who live in memories are never really dead.

So, how does he kiss?"I'm blushing. I tap my fingers on my lips before I say, "He kisses like ... like it could be his job.

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.