We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

We enjoy beauty through our perceptions, and we create beauty through our expressions.

Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn't know I had.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.