Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

[Buddhism] takes us beyond a kind of self-centered narcissism because instead of identifying with the content of our experience, we identify with awareness itself.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.