The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.