I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.