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

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

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.

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

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.

Never crave for anyone, you will get what you're destined in your life! Trust Existence!

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.