“If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.”

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday..

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

The goal of all life is death.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

The paramedic whispered in my ear ‘God will never leave you or forsake you.’

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They’re not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.