I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

Courage is strength of a strong soul.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Everything around us is shifting all the time. Energy is moving in all things. What gives energy a continuity, what creates a pattern, is you.

I did act as a kid, but I quit when I was seventeen.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.