Better Old King Cole and his merry soul than a hundred Jeremiahs.

Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.

Moths don’t need to explain why they’re attracted to the light.

Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do.

Thinking must never be a substitute for action.

Human nature is water, not stone.

When I told the rainbow what its colors meant, it laughed.

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love.

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free.

People grow bitter and cynical about life because they can’t bend it to their will.

We are fighting now to save that endangered species-the individual.

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.

Don’t resist! Open the door when love comes knocking.

An aphorism needn’t be true, but it should sound true.

Poets should be crazy-but only in their poems.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

It’s not an artist’s job to change people or save the world.

If I could find the right words, I’d say what the blue sky says.

It isn’t true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred.

The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.

The child’s naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

Creativity should include everything that makes one feel alive.

We live first and find reasons later.

When machines break down, it’s people who suffer.

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

Today is the day you’ve been waiting for.

What is deeply felt is never lost.

When people die, their death dies with them.

Civilization: the human zoo

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

Happy people have always inspired me.

Once you’ve mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

The artist is always dancing with death.

To know your soul is your own, that’s what counts.

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

I have found much in people to love but nothing to envy.

To be ignorant as God is ignorant, knowing only what is real.

A good story will always outlive the truth.

The world is so big and words are so small!

A broken mirror means good luck if you want it to.

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.

In a war between evils, only evil wins.

Even the oldest trees aren’t ashamed to stand naked.

Humor is heartbreak in reverse.