At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

I'm staying in a strange hotel. I called room service for a sandwich and they sent up two hookers.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.