Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Be flexible and adapt easily to new things

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways