No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Life is, of course, terrible.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

We propose to rebuild the key tools of missile defense starting with Navy cruisers that are the foundation of our missile defense capabilities in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

It's good they're holding the Olympics in the East End of London. Means the athletes will have to use extra skill to work out which gunshot is the starting pistol.

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

I would say I have compassion.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.