Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.

Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath and start again

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.