Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.

Success caused passion more than passion caused success.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.

Everything in existence is a manifestation of the one living being we call God. Everything is God.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.