When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can't look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

Am I a prisoner of my thoughts?Am I a prisoner of my societal conformity?Who am I?How conscious am I?Am I conscious or obnoxious?

In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you need to not understand your mission, but also work at self-improvement

We are powerful beyond imagination.

I have known the spirit of my soul through the trials and temptations.

Don't give up searching.

The sacredness of solitude is spiritualty

Search deep within your soul, you will find the light.

Discover your sacred soul.

Service is the key to self-discovery of full strength