There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

The best things arrive on time.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Things will happen when they should. When an event is forced, its outcome would be less than optimal.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

Pray God, keep us simple.