One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

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.

I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.