All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

I guess I prefer the laughs. I couldn't do a whole set of just shocks, but I like throwing a fastball inside every now and then to keep people on their toes.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.