People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being.

I'm just happy there are characters in the world. I think that anybody who's completely nuts and makes the world a more interesting place is good by me, as long as they're not hurting others.

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.