We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

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.

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world. The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families