But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.

If you do darshan (worship) of the one who has both stillness in his eyes and chit prasannta (blissful state of chit)

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

You will be able to do great things when you know and truly understand that all you really have and can control is your own life. Everything else is second to that.”~ShirLee McGarry~ 06/12/2010

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.