Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.