...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

Lose your mind and come to your senses.

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

Those that fight don't listen, those that listen don't fight.

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Awareness in itself is healing.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

I can't give a Professor love!

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.

Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

Immerse your soul in love.