If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

Even demons can fall in love.

... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.

The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

A thought, once uttered, is untrue

Necessity is God's veil.

The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be.