Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

But the child shouldn't be blamed for the father's crime, she tried to reason with herself, then. But should the child therefore also enjoy the father's illicit gain?

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

I have no nationality, no country.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.