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All religions, and all conceptions of God, are made by the imaginations of men • Tread lightly upon the Earth • Play good defense • Remember where you parked • Don't die guessing • Be a gift to others • Know how to keep a secret • Listen for the music of silence • You schmooze, you lose • The past is all in your head • The largest fish in the pond is always the most cautious • One spends the first half of life learning how to be; the second half learning how not to be • Never bet the farm • As humans grappled to explain the universe, religion is supplanted by philosophy; philosophy is supplanted by science • Know your time to go • Hear a voice other than your own • Sometimes the truth depends upon a walk around the lake • Innocence is not a vacuum to be filled with experience • The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness • Even Buddha had another step to take • Boredom is a failure of the imagination • Knowing is better than seeing • Write a little every day, without hope, without dispair • Living a life is like folding bed sheets: you can do it yourself, but it's a little easier if you find somebody to help • The secret to walking on ice is to allow someone else to go first • Survival is a talent • The problem with history is that you can't go back and prove it wasn't so • Do what you say you will do • There's no such thing as a free puppy • Start out as you mean to go on • Make an effort • Never pass up an opportunity to pee • Create something • You need to believe to be deceived • Use for yourself little, but give to others much • Try • Never say something to your spouse that you wouldn't say on a first date • Make something better • There are not degrees of compatibility, only degrees of acceptance • Live within your means