Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

Time should be assessed as seconds, minutes and hours so as to be maximized effectively

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling.