Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

communication is a bridge to two or more people to understand...

A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.

....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.

Today is today, and yesterday is gone. There is no doubt.

Before the Web, there was just one guy running around saying 'I KNOW!'

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.