An intense life needs a touch of madness.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

I can dance beauty into my body

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

In Sadhana there will be internal talk with God. You will give up all attachments and at­tach only to God.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.