People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

If you love somebody, tell them.

The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts

Proclaiming “the whole will of God” should be the goal—and the joy—of every church and every preacher.

It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.

I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.

Hire for character, train for skills.

God gives everybody gifts, but he doesn't give anybody all the gifts.

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.