Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Awe is what moves us forward.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Winston and his sister walked for a time in silence, each in an invisible, vibrating pocket of excitement.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.