Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

eventually, everything goes away.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.