Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

I try to be healthy because to be happy and healthy on the inside shows on the outside.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

Such as we are made of, such we be.