“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”

“Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.”

“Everything starts with yourself – with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life”

“No matter how you feel you have to actlike you are very popular with yourself;very relaxed and purposefulvery unconfusedand notlike you are walking through the sunshinesingingin chains.”

“ROY [COHN]:Please. Let me finish. Few people know this and I’m telling you this only because. . . . I’m not afraid of death. What can deathbring that I haven’t faced? I’ve lived; life is the worst.(Gently mocking himself) Listen to me, I’m a philosopher. Joe. You must do this. You must must must. Love, that’s a trap. Responsibility; that’s a trap, too. Like a father to a son I tell you this: Life is full of horror; nobody escapes, nobody; save yourself. Whatever pulls on you, whatever needs from you, threatens you. Don’t be afraid; people are so afraid; don’t be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone. . . . Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”

“So, your Socially Intelligent and altruistic behaviour doesn’t justbenefit your friends and colleagues; you benefit too. If you leave peopleon a high note, you leave yourself on that same high note! You thusfeed your own memory banks with wonderful and uplifting memories,as well as boosting your own resistance to stress, illness and disease.BUT REMEMBER: The opposite is also true …If you leave your friends, lovers and colleagues on antagonistic andunpleasant notes, you help them to flood their own bodies withpoisons that leave them physically unbalanced, their immune systemsweakened, and their memories fouled.And you do the same to yourself!The choice is yours …”