Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

The big art is our life.

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

Beauty is not defined by the size of your jeans.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.