In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

The journey is the reward.

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.