The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

One positive thought will shift the entire world under your feet.

They'd rather see me fail than succeed, That's why I'm alone on my own with no team. Don't need no green, though I got some to spend; In the end...all I really need is a friend.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

History is made by those who say no.

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

There is no kingdom like the forests.