Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Nothing is impossible because the only obstacle is you

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

When you can't create you can work

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.