Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.