When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

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.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems, it's just one and it's education. You educate all the girls and boys. You give them the opportunity to learn.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.