We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

True enlightenment is when you know that you’re nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?