The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

I go where I want to go, I do what I want to do, and I am beholden to no one.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.