Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.

If you follow, Practice and Live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life!

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

Be kind to each other.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.