Meditation provides the tools not only to abide more comfortably in the present, but also to observe rather than engage with unhappiness-creating thoughts.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.