There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.

Creativity and love come from the same source.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.