Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

With our intimate partners, we can take responsibility for the parts of ourselves that are hardest to deal with - because we finally know ourselves well enough to do so.