The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

Sometimes Life seems to be a big QUESTION MARK. Don't know where it will lead us to....

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.