One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.