We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.

We know The wheel of time moves on New bonds, new ties ignite Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide There is always a hope At the horizon we seek.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!