A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.

When you teach, you learn twice

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

I never want to be pretentious.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.