We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

That’s what great art does—that’s why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.