In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze and I won't know what to say

I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love