I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world.

Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.

Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Teenagers think they are invincible

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.