There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.