cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

Karate begins and ends with courtesy.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

I haven't been with a woman in nine months.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.