"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized."

"Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane."

"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."