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

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.

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

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

I’d like to do a job where I don’t have to tie women to beds.

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

Man must go back to nature for information.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.