Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to [his or her] opinion, let [him or her] sustain a feeling of importance.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.