The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.