The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.