Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

What a dire time to be attracted to men.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

I just liked to play football, no matter what the position.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.