"Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace."

-- Lorenzo Scupoli

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“Iâ€™m more comfortable with myself than when I was younger. I hated myself then. Wait, I didnâ€™t hate myself â€“ thatâ€™s a strong word. But I was so diffident. I didnâ€™t know how to act, for one. I had no confidence in that area or in myself at all, really. I had a big inner critic and still do. I just donâ€™t listen to it so much.”
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.”
“When you're a doctor and you spend most of your life in a hospital, you honestly don't get to watch as much television as you think you might, and the power of television is enormous.”
“You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.”
“I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.”
“When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.”
“The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.”
“It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.”

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