I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

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.

You have a very open relationship with your fans.""Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.