I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery.

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.

The more you kick me when I'm down, the more it truly helps.

Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.