Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

To live your life afraid of others and deny them a chance to come close is to not live at all.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.