Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

If I knew how and where to sacrifice myself, I must know how and where to save myself.

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.