Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.