There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?

The ends and means are a seamless web.