Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Pain don't hurt.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.