To admit your ignorance is freeing. To say, "I don't know" is to free yourself from having to come up with a bullshit answer.

The length of words used to explain something does not determine the quality of the thought. Yet, I tend to believe that the shorter one can say something, the better it is.

Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.