We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

It is not always convenient or comfortable, and sometimes worship is a sheer act of the will--a willing sacrifice.

Post a picture of you or of somebody and look... the days have been counted.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.