If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?

By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.

Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path

If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through, She'll feel as good as.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Tides do what tides do – they turn.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.