The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

There is nothing wrong with my mind.

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

But if we expect justice for ourselves, we must support it for others.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.