It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.

I don’t get writer's block because I don’t believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

We have within ourselves Enough to fill the present day with joy, And overspread the future years with hope.

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.