I sat up in bed my body covered in sweat, and aching from tossing and turning that I had done. I knew it had been another nightmare. They had plagued my nights since the day I took Aleksander’s life.

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

God receives little thanks even for his greatest gifts.

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.