And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.

Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to the hidden, spiritual things of life.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.