One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Oh baby, your planet sounds like paradise but it just doesn't fly down here in the trenches.

Just do the next right thing.Then repeat indefinitely.

All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

Tantric Zen is for someone who is really broad-minded. It is Bodhidharma's Zen, your Zen, my Zen. Which doesn't mean I have a problem with Japanese Zen. Most Japanese Zen is minding your p's and q's.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.