No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.

Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

There are no failures, only quitters.