I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

The brightest light burns the quickest.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

At the start there’s always energy.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.