When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity?

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.