When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain...

Allowing myself to wander off into the vast jungles of religion and spirituality has often led to me stumbling upon life altering new ways of thinking, living, and being.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.