What we lack is intensity of life.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

Education is the transportation of the mind.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

I love my country more than anything else.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.