Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

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.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

We regret mistakes were made.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science