To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

I'm a big fan of the Russians: Isaac Babel is just an exquisite line-to-line stylist.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.

Despotism is a long crime.