For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.