You can be right or you can be happy.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Writer speaks a stench.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

Never trust a southerner. No, I'm kidding. They're wonderful. You want to believe in his niceness and his charm, but he's an evil kind of crazy man who's righteous. Fear the righteous.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.