I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am I?

Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

All good things come to those who wait.

Never prod at a woman unless you must. She will kill you faster than a man and for less reason, even if she weeps over it after.