...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point?

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Winners don't eat wieners.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.