As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Because i am magic and, you are my precious stone.

I've never asked you to give the least considerations to my feelings." He could picture her holding the word with fingertips at arm's length, like a scullery maid disposing of a dead rat.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

He tried to pull me against him, and I bit him on the lip. He licked his lip with the tip of his tongue. 'Did you just bite me?

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.