Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Apparently President Obama's favorite cocktail is a martini. When asked how he likes it, he said, 'On the beach, in Hawaii, in 2017.'

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep