Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I like that Sleepy Brown guy who's down with Andre. He's so great.

Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.