If you don't want to be a teacher, you'd better get off this planet.

Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned.

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.