I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

Look at your life without the thought "Something terrible is going to happen."