Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.