Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.