If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is read more

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] read more

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

Sometimes there are no second chances; so forgive the past, remember the present and prepare for the future. It's the read more

Sometimes there are no second chances; so forgive the past, remember the present and prepare for the future. It's the only life you're given.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it read more

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates read more

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.