Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

I do not regard the limits of the past and present as the limits of humanity of the future

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.