I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

My life is singing. I don't plan on retiring. I plan to die on a stage. I can have a headache but when it's time to sing and I step on that stage there is no more headache.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

If you give, you will be blessed.