“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”

“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.”

“Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.”

“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.”

“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not.Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delightful character.Some will say that they were at one time troubled in sleeping but have 'recovered' from it, as though awareness were a disease, as perhaps it is.”

“Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.”

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”