If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.

Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman's bed. Monarch's blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

love is all about timing

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.

Hell is full of good intentions.

Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.