I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

Do good. That’s all any of us can do.

Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.