If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.