The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.

If love is the answer could you please rephrase the question?

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

I just can't seem to paint nice things.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.