I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

tiny: did someone die?me: yeah, i did.he smiles again at that.tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.