. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.

Ironically, girls who don't think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.