This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

In any situation, there is hope.

I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

None of Us is as Good as All of Us.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.