On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

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.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.