We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.