Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

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.

Many people only live for today

Love is a gamble, heartbreak is the cost.But never lose hope, for love is never truly lost.

No hard feelings, lover. You can't break my heart. It stopped beating a long time ago.

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

If a rich man drinks alcohol, he will easily become a poor. If a poor man does not drink alcohol, he will easily become rich.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.