“Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.”

“What we think often does more to influence the nature of our relationships than what we say or do.”

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”

“Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.”