We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored to unfold the collective consciousness. In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of life.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

People will always notice something about you. It might be the way you walk or the way you talk, or just simply your personality. Live each day in the way you want to be remembered. Live in such a way that people will be inspired by those unique qualities that you have and strive to live better lives for themselves.

I__e always felt a vague sense of guilt that I search for plunder and inspiration in every book or poem or story I pick up. Other people__ books are treasures when stories emerge in molten ingots that a writer can shape to fit his or her own talents. Magical theft has always played an important part of my own writer__ imagination.