Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.