The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.