It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Write your goals down. Write your goals on paper and not in your mind. That makes the vision plain. Spend quality time with yourself and review your life.

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down.

I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.