If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

I'll get it, " said Jough in his man-of-the-house voice, a full octave lower than his regular voice.

What we need is more books to read.

When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.