I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity

Every one is as God made him and often a great deal worse.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Funerals...are for the living.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Take charge of your environment.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.