Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

God made me and broke the mold.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Freedom is relative.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

My life is my message.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

My life is real.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.