Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It’s the sort of love where you know another being’s strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package.

You humans always try to make things too simple, except when you’re trying to make things too complicated. You can never just be with what is.

When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real.

Start doing what you want to do. You will only get better with time. Or you’ll realize you want to be doing something else. Either way, one of those things is better than sitting & waiting!

If your life is ever going to get better you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

It's really important for me to live purposefully, and I feel that way putting music out in the world and having people connect with it. That means everything to me.

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.