I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.