There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. |

The constant happiness is curiosity. |

Life teaches you how to live it, if you live long enough. |

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive. |

What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. |

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. |

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. |

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. |

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose. |

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. |

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. |

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. |

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. |

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. |

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. |

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. |

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. |

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. |

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. |

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. |

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. |

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. |