Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

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.

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

We are the creators of our universe.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.