Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Doctors is all swabs.

There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

Only those things the heart believes are true.

The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.