Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
To be authentic literally means to be your own author.
Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.
I have an almost religious zeal. . . not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them. . . your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.
Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows, as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably procrastinated for almost a year, but we had meetings and I was basically going to spoof "Take Ivy," but then it kind of turned into something else. I wanted it to be a book of all the things that made me who I am, like Brooks Brothers, Hot Wheels, "The Andy Griffith Show" and G. I. Joes. I couldn't sit still and do it, so my agent had to come to my house and force me to do it.
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.