Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Whatever we do in Life, let us not forget to enjoy it. Life is a Gift and will soon end. We may have Goals and Aspirations, but we must enjoy every Moment of Life.

You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.

When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.