Attachment is the root of all suffering.

Even if the game isn't fair, I'm going to figure out a way to win.

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.