People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing

Someone once told me love isn’t perfect—or predictable.

Everything happens for a reason.

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.