The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

I pity those who have no taste for reading.

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.

I was more of a weightlifter.