Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

Eliminate the superfluous.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.