A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

You cannot solve a problem in the same frequency in which it was created.

It's a fact that at the deeper levels there are less humans.

Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.