Most men will not swim before they are able to.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

When the sun shall be folded up

Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams.

Like food is to the body, self-talk is to the mind. Don't let any junk thoughts repeat in your head.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!