Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

The difference between right and wrong is often not more than five metres.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.