I have never been spiritual in the sense that you understand the word.  I have never gone to the temples or the churches, or read scriptures, or followed certain practices to find truth, or worshipped God or prayed to God.  That has not been my way at all.  So certainly you can say that I was not doing anything spiritual.  But to me spirituality has a totally different connotation.  It needs an honest individuality.  It does not allow any kind of dependence.  It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost.  It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth.  The truth has been found only in people's aloneness.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them.  Love is one of them.  There is no way to learn it; you have to do it.  And by trial and error one learns.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? "Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep."

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Come to the edge, he said. They said, we are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came, he pushed them and they flew.