To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.

We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.