Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

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.

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

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.