Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?

The beauty that is in the results of your hard work, is not worth any compromise or delay

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

I'm lost in the woods right now.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.