The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.