Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

A sensitive person must find a sensitive life partner otherwise a raw life partner would become a puzzle for his/her entire life

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

Never ask people about your work.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!