Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another.

Either they're still naive, or stupid.

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.