The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.

Many without punishment none without sin.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.