Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve, —Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Learning means change.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.