I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.
Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.
Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.
It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.
If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives in a city, or shops in a supermarket, or watches TV, or reads a newspaper, or drives a car, or eats frozen pizzas. A nice life, possibly, with a huge slice of luck and a little spare cash. And maybe even a good life if. . . Well, let's not go into all that. But rich and beautiful lives seem to be a discontinued line.
Take care, you who wish to deal with names for love. Behind their sweetness and wrath, nothing endures. Nothing but wounds and kisses.
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.