Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.