The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.