I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.