I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be.

I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.

No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.