Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

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?

But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

When it comes to giving advice, never do so unless you've first received a request in writing, signed by a lawyer.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.