You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

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.

Measure yourself by your best moments not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.