When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Come slowly over the hills and valleys to touch my soul, feel my heart, and vanish in my joy.

Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Live for the present, and the future will be known before it ever happens.

I would have done better to cherish my good memories. I know that you were trying to protect me, and I admire you for that. I wish now that I had let you.”- Aimee (Marked Book #1) page 288

Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.