Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full dimension of ways of life other than our own.

Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough, people are now more like slaves than human beings.

Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

You're pissed I laid it out and you're gonna go nurse your snit

I'm going to stop smoking. I'm not such a good smoker, anyway. It's not in my bones. I'm gonna drop it.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.