Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.

General literature without the humbug, " was the New Yorker's original mission.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.