The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

Everything is energy in motion.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.

The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

A star doesn’t need words to tell the world what it does

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.