and the stars were icicles of mockery

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.

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.