The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

Life on earth is to be live but once.Live life to the best you can.Live to your fullness.

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird.

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.