Occupation: Writer Birth: June 23, 1936
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are..
Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?.
You're never given a dream without the power to make it true..
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble..
One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience..
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it..
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self..
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid….
Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whate….
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, ….
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice..
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten.
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can po….
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for….
I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me..
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of th….
I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then in….
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that ha….
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever ….
It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into ….
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?.