If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Always be a blessing to others

Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.

Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag, " he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.