Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

With courage you take on gracefully anything that tries to stop you. To have courage means to be brave and take on what ever challenges you

When you get inside go change into something loose and baggy. And for all that's holy, please wear panties and a bra.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.