Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it.

Warriors should suffer their pain silently.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens

When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.