How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

'The grief didn't fade, but it changed into something I could carry around with me, a noose I wore around my neck. It wasn't until I saw you that the knot loosened.'

Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Consciousness is the ground of Being.

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.