From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Life isn’t how many breaths you take, but it’s the moments that take your breath away.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.