You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)

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.

All significant battles are fought within self.