“Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.”

“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”

“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”

“It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.”

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads toself-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt,that's real power.”

“Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”