Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.