How lonely it is!To be drowning, in a placewhere everyone can swim.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

It was a strange thing about people- they could look the same but be different.

Paulie smiled slightly at this, as profanity had always felt to him like a seal of understanding, a shortcut to extreme feeling that people used when they needed it most.

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I always find people who are unique very attractive.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.