"We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge."

“If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.”

“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”

Source : James Schuyler, Nathan Kernan (1997). “The diary of James Schuyler”, Black Sparrow Pr

“It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.”

“Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.”

“The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.”

“The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!”

“The weird thing is, I'm not entirely sure that I am meant to think that such a gift is who I am according to the philosophy underlying Vedanta. But I have long been stubborn like that, for some reason. It's a gift, as I say.”

“One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.”