Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Oh, to awake from dreaming!

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.