It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you're gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.