The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Those swift to think are not always secure.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

I do actually like Los Angeles. Partly because I was told I wouldn't.

If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.