To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Love is a power which produces love.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.

Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness".

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

Cousins are more then cousins, there best friends that are their through it all.

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.