Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

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)

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.