Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.

Gravity is on duty all of the time.

The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’ self. ("Everybody his story")

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.