As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
In fact living is dying.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.
We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.
A flower is your cousin. . . Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it. . . But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.