Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it 'maturity'.