Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

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.

If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.

In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies".

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter, even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.