To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."