Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

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.

Art is science made clear.

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.