The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.

The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.