The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

I 'd never seen him cry

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

He's helped me a lot over the years." "I'm sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours." "I have skin allergies. I'm itchy.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

Love knoweth no laws.

Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer - Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.