For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

Memory is the enemy of wonder

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.

Know someone you hate? Give their kid a kazoo!

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!