If one believes, then miracles occur.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

The best technique is none at all.