It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them.

The fundamental goal of Buddhism is the realization of the peace and happiness of humankind.

Live your life in your own unique way and be true to yourself

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

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When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.

Live, but do not love, because love is simply a lie, only heartache waits in its wake.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

I'm retired 99.9%. Of course, there always is that .1%.

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.