Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.