Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Being successful doesn't mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you're successful.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed.

To fight unhappiness one must first expose it.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.