The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.