Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.

You never know, lightning could strike.