“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Power said to the world, you are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.

I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

I have lost my dewdrop , cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.