I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

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.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.