The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that’s out of kings.

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

What you already know is merely a good departure point.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

Dear Jacob, I win. Sincerely, Edward