Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

For the light to exist, there must be the dark. For the Force, there must be balance.

Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.