Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

What you desire you call into being.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.