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.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

But after a while, she began to experience the new reality of each person as being as strong and as weak as anyone else. Slowly, she learned that each of us grown-ups has as much and as little power as the other, and that we had best learn to take care of ourselves.(83)

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