If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.