Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.