A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Her face was the best of Raquel Welch and Christy Brinkley combined. All atop a curvaceous body that would make Rubens drop his paintbrush."-Adam W. Jones, Fate Ball

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.