Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

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.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.