My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.

So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.

Let's go with what you have to get what you want.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not ever again.