Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.

Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.

Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.

I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done.

As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate.

They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries.