Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy.

Our talents don’t define us any more than our faults.

Water flows because it’s willing.

A philosophy must be livable; it can’t just be ideas.

When we are bored it is always with ourselves we are bored.

You don’t know how to live. You live.

Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love.

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York.

Be grateful to the gullible heart!

Children, like God, see only our actions.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.

When you’re living, just living, dreams come true you never knew you had.

Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

Peace is the first condition of joy.

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.

Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage.

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.

The first thing that happens when you’re happy is you start forgiving everyone.

Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is.

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.

Accidents are built into the road.

The cruelest countries have the most laws.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

The love of life begins with the love of one person.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

An artist’s work is one long conversation with life.

What makes a life-any life-beautiful is the simple fact of living it.

We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.

Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls.

A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.

Technology is not the problem. We are the problem.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

What you do to kill time is your real work.

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.

We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.