Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You may have a small body, but great strength.You may have an ordinary mind, but great wisdom.You may have a wounded heart, but great courage.You may have a weary soul, but great love.

Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

You can't get a body like mine in a bottle unless you push real hard.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.