After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Pray for strength to preserve.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.