Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

My fishing hole is deader than...a dead thing that's dead.