Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.