There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.