Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

It's no sin to tell a good story.

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

An enlightened person strives to live a meaningful life, defined by their personal humility joy, passion, and profound reverence for life.

Do you love to live or live to love?

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.