I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Love is the creative force of this universe.

In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.