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

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.

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 one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.

Truth is its own reward.