“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o'mine, O mother o'mine!

Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

“Here the voice told him truthfully what sort of wife he had wedded, and what she was doing in his absence.”

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”

“One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after.”

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

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”

“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty.”