Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

It was one of those days you sometimes get latish in the autumn when the sun beams, the birds toot, and there is a bracing tang in the air that sends the blood beetling briskly through the veins.

Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.