The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I love to cook; that's my passion.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.