“It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.”

“Influence can be defined as earning the right to be heard so that others are moved toward their best.Like Salt shaken out influence is hard to see, but its flavor is impossible to miss”

“It's not your family who defines you; they're an influence, all right, but they don't have the final say. We answer for that ourselves.”

“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the French, I think, have an attachment to their country which is almost a physical bond. They're never really at ease when they're out of it.”

“It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.”

“...letting go of attachment to any way of believing or thinking has made me feel more expanded and almost transparent so that universal energy can just flow through me.”