Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.

If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.