I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

We do not create our destiny

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.