Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

How do you know if you truly found the one? When loving her feels like a calling from God.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.