For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

The world does not give money to those who spend 24hrs church everyday praying for financial miracles.

In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light.

But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our lives forever.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.