He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.

Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye

It is uncomfortable to keep your dreams in a house just behind a public toilet

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

I like a great degree of compression. I like to mix lateral steps with forward ones. I don't want the prose ever to feel simply functional - at least not for any stretch.

Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.

The future of the world depends on how well we meet it.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.