I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Fight for what you want out of this one life.

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

One must endure without losing tenderness.

Theology is a subject without an object

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Life is a lot like skateboarding.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.