The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

I had this dream about you. We went hunting up in the mountains and I caught a unicorn. You told me now I know how it feels to be you.

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

Empty words and superfluous ideas are in the eye of the beholder. If that eye is dark so is the rest. If that mind is blind so is the eye.

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213)

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.