When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

There is no true reality. It is just an interplay of your consciousness, awareness, thoughts, and actions.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.