Don’t allow past experiences to be forgotten.Hold them close.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

The truth is, living in any society is difficult. Those who become desperate with a fractured sense of security are much more prone to being taken advantaged of.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

Don’t forget:Ruts aren’t that much different . . .from graves.

Life is about finding . . .what works best for you.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.

Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.

The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes, goals, and hopes of its victims—swallowed by the sea of greed.

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.