As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. Men have tried to breach it before, but I've learned to defend it vigorously, for I am only safe with my innermost thoughts.

It is strange how you shall hate a man, and yet pity him from the depths.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living.

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!