The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.

Be a little kinder to each other.

My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today.

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

Most furniture is not made for people - they are made for the people who sell them.

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

These are the times for which we were born.

I find Mexico exciting to visit, but I think [it] is looked down upon. Mexico is not a very respected place, unless you're Mexican, and even then it's something of a love/hate relationship.

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.