Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

That's what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Hold faithfully to your unique vision and your detractors will eventually tire and give-up.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness