Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Life is spiritual breath.

Each person change themselves first, and then let your change act as a leader for others to make the changes they need.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

You are awareness. You are mind. You are not from this world. I mean, think about it, could you really be from here?

Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.