Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.

He who loves not lives not.

Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

Intoxicating”— Shannon

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.