Quotes from Sheldon B. Kopp

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)