“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”

“Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.”

“I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.”

“If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.”

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

“I crave to be understood because when a person writes about himself, he does not work in obscurity but a little too much in the light which he focuses on himself. To me the satisfaction comes from the fact that at least I have said something about myself in my own voice without ‘paraphrasing any hard truths’.”

“It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.”

“Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”