It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

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.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure, ' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

Violence and war lead only to death.

It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.