"Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity."

"A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation."

"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."

"The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world."

"I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way."

"There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream."

"When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over."

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."