The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world.

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.

I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

I have been shown in darkness, light [and] have learned that, even in prison, one can be free.

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

There's a guy in California who was voting 24 years after he died. I mean, so to suggest to us that people who are concerned about honest elections are somehow nutty, I think, is a mistake.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.