The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

If you cant be a good example, then youll just have to be a horrible warning.

We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”