In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question."What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.

It's totally freeing when I stay in tune with scripture. I don't have to worry if I miss a dive. I go into competition and it's like, "Praise God no matter what."

Don't look back, you can never look back

Samadhi is the absorption of God. There's no sense of time, place or condition.

When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast.

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.