It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

It is only when you touch the higher that you realize how low we may be among the possibilities of creation.

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.

The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are.

You have to do what you have to do.

We must be young to do great things.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.