Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.

The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.

Be careful who you share your dreams with whilst they are still in the creation stage. Doubt kills dreams.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.