The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

Depression is my bestfriend

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.

None of us are perfect, so a true friend will never look for defects in you as a person, it won't even cross their mind. Your happiness will be their main concern.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

I have no plans to run for president.