“Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.”

“All choices have consequences,' she said []. 'That doesn't mean we're not free to make them. It's one of the perplexities of the human condition”

“Mais l'important, c'est pas la chute, c'est l'atterrissage.”

“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.”

“In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.”

“You will always be human and subject to the emotions and frailties of the flesh.”

“I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.”