I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

I never refused autograph seekers, unless they were old enough to look like collection agents.

Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Cynicism is for lightweights.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.