Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

Honor the ocean of love.

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

We are an episode between two oblivions.