I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

Every cell is eavesdropping on your internal dialogue.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

Occupation alone is happiness.