The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.