When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Life is loves shrinewhen you're my valentine.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.