Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Love must be the same in all worlds.

Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

The body is some kind of image of you, it's kind of something that's just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn't really represent who you really are.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.