I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

If we learn to know that there is no enemy but we only have friend with misunderstanding then peace will be there.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.

What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done.

I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman.

Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.