Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

The ego, as a collection of our past experiences, is continually offering miserable lines of thought. It's as if there were a stream with little fish swimming by, and when we hook one of them there is a judgment. The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do-this is why it takes work-is to not reach out and grab a fish.

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.