That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

To sate your need without love is theft

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

She laughed, and he fell in love.

The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.