A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.