I look at every book as a self-help book.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Experience is more important than knowledge.

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.