My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.

Refusal to accept the truth is denial of divine self.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.