Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.