Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.