There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

How little we understandof the gifts we have been givenor the shape of the pathwe took to reach our salvation.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.