Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

We each must select the best hardships for our best future.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

When life kicks me, I kick it back.