While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

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.

She answered with a passion I didn’t expect & I was lost. In that moment our hearts beat as one. In that moment I knew she loved me." #Ren

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steel the hubcaps.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Not acting to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction is neither politically nor morally acceptable.

Relationships don't exist... Relating does.