To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

To live is to evolve our point of view about the world and what we have decided to do with it.

I believe we all have one address and that is Earth.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The biggest challenge in life is for the two hearts to live in peaceful co-existence

I've always wanted to kick a duck up the arse

Something begins, begins; Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroad, In flesh and spirit and fire. Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.