Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.

I had a dream about you last night.. you were holding a pine cone and introducing him as Gerald.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.