Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

I can never be satisfied I always look for more.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.

I like to travel by myself.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.