Give your life the gift of unconditional happiness. You are too special to be anything but happy. You truly deserve it, and it is absolutely free.

And at the end of your days, you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting, passionate existence.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

I think the biggest area of growth is going back to our galactic heritage.

I think that natural beauty is very charismatic... I just believe in enhancing who we are rather than trying to manipulate or change it too much.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.