Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

Children see magic because they look for it.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

The medium obscured the message.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.

He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.