When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Stop putting all your dirty laundry out in the open if you are not willing to be judged by them.

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Safeguard the health of both body and soul.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.