The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!