At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Changes at any level within an organization (individual, team or organization) or across business ecosystem require intent.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

You don't need to crave anything, because you are already everything. It's all here, right now.

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know.

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.