It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

The price of stability is unpreparedness.

Words are loneliness.

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature.

Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.