Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.