We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.