The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again