If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Fame separates you from life.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.