Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

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.

Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.

We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.