Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

The sensation I had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candlem, leaving behind wisps of nameless longing.

You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

"I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not." he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.

I know a lot of successful people and none of them are stupid.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.