Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

We think too much and feel too little.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.