Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

The older I get, the clearer it becomes to me that no one is cheated in this world, unless it's by himself.

Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?