My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

The nation... doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.

When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

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Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path.

The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.