Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Seek renewal of mind.

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

Learn to always celebrate the positive things in your life, and never hesitate to leave your negative experiences behind.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.