Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

People have within their own hands the tools to fashion their own destiny.

Evil is just a point of view

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.