Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.