Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer.

...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

No way, that would kill my diet for the week. I don't know how you can stand to eat so unhealthy, Quinn. Just consider it an amuse-biatch.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

The responsiveness of a firm to the consumer is directly proportionate to the distance on the organization chart from the consumer to the chairman of the board.