We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

He's looking into the night, in case a shadow comes to listen and look.

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

The love you give away is the love you keep.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.