Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, b….

Better to separate than never to marry..

Music is the can-opener of the soul..

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestio….

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

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

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beauti….

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

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. ….

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things..

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum..

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world..

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life..

I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a ne….

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in..

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all..

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

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not ….

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music..

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a ….

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen..