It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

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.

Don't try to compete, Create!Don't try to compare, Dominate!Don't try to complain, Change!And don't just try, Commit!This is the moment that can change your life forever!

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.