Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.