Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

My vibration is always in the sublime sunshine of life!

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?