Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
One thing we can all control is effort
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.