Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body.

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.