Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

The fact is that Democrats are not for tax cuts.

A beautiful woman can make herself look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure.