To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

I wanna be the best in at least one thing in this life.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

There's no place like New York. And I found out that until you go through it for a season, you really don't know it.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.