We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.

Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.