Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Victory is forged in the heart.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Love is the white light of emotion.

A person who is enlightened does not have to reincarnate, or they may. If they chose not to, they can go beyond the wheel, and slide into nirvana.

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

I have actually gotten to like fear.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.