“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

“Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, “simple interpretation” is obviously not enough.”

“Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering upon them.”

“Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.”

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

“The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”