We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

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.

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

Whatever you may say something is, it is not!

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.