I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

Ya hafta be there for Beck. He only has you." Riley sighed. "I'll get the car.

Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.