The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.