I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Awareness in itself is healing.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.

What is Tantric Zen? Well, I don't think I can give you a straight answer, since I don't happen to be a very straight Zen master.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.