Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

Nobody remembers second place.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.