In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

... the past was what we carried with us, threaded to the future, and we decided whether to keep it close or let it go.

... a man always revealed his own inner story in his actions and expressions. A man's past deeds foretold his future and allowed anyone with half a brain to divine the path he would take.

[Eddie] wondered if every criminal saw himself as the hero of his own story and if every thankless son was convinced he'd been mistreated by his father.

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

I'll just go guard some villagers or something. Even if they're not in danger.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

Every day is a good day. Your every-day mind - that is the Way!