Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Love is in the airTonight Baby Take meRight by your side You need love Like I do my love ……………………

Not by discovering new wow things you are able to understand the truth about nature, but by changing the very fundamental way of perceiving anything you've ever seen in daily life.

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.