A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us.

Let go of the place that holds, let go of the place that controls, let go of the place that fears. Just let the ground support me.

It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.