Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time andplace.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

I have never met a politician who has exceeded my low expectations of them.

Last night, in silent hours - where the gentle sea touched our skin - I have found the love of your thinking.

All warfare is based on deception.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.