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

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

What would you do if money was no object?

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

Cows scream louder than carrots.