Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself.

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.

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

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

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there!

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.