For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

Some people do polarizing the religion against science. I use both to solve a problem with two different kind of approach.

She's beauty and she's the beast, rolled into one.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

The gospel teaches us to be happy, to have faith rather than fear, to find hope and overcome despair, to leave darkness and turn toward the light of the everlasting gospel.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.