The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

Adversity tests the limit of your strength.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

I don't date boys. I don't like boys. It's true. I don't change.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.