Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional.

Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

A valid answer comes when the question is lived.

Absent in body but present in spirit.

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait .

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Great has been our past, wonderful is our present, and glorious can be our future.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.