Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

As long as there is death, there is hope

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

The awful thing is we don't respect each other.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.