Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!

The only way to go beyond death is to accept death. Then it disappears. The only way to be fearless is to accept fear. Then the energy is released and becomes freedom.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Early to bed and early to rise may make a person 'healthy' but it may not make him ‘wealthy’ and ‘wise’! If anyone really wants to be wealthy and wise, he must read books and work intelligently!

Well, she was through. If he wanted her, he'd have to do something about it.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.