One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.