The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

Salt water is and isn’t the ocean.

Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win.

When one loves willingly, there is no sacrifice.

Believing in yourself is the best poetry.

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.

Reasons? There are no reasons.

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.

Death kills us once; worry kills us every day.

When all else fails, stare straight into the sun.

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

You don’t learn art from life, or life from art.

In dreams and stories we rearrange our lives.

The freedom I treasure most is the freedom to get up and leave.

It’s not easy to change things. Things fight back.

Nothing is known until the heart knows it.

If the cockroaches survive and we don’t, what does that say about human intelligence?

Some leaves hang on longer but eventually they all fall.

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.