I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

I don't think people realize that what we eat and your stress levels impact the way that you look. Not just your body, but your face and your overall well-being.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

One should love animals. They are so tasty.