Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of Mind and the Mind of Nature.

As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

So everyone has that problem, models have that problem, too.

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.