It is always well to get near to men of genius.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Don't be a slave to society!

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

If you focus upon whatever you want, you will attract whatever you want. If you focus upon the lack of whatever you want, you will attract more of the lack.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)