It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

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.

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today...Name 1 thing that moved you...Name 1 thing that inspired you...

When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.