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

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.

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.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

Change starts with awareness.

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.