You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.