Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

All true wealth is biological.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!