I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

I am not what I think I am. I just am.

As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.