cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

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.

Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

Confidence is everything in this business.

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.