Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.