Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

Be more interested than interesting.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.