Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping!

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.