I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion

One cannot demand that anybody be a hero, though one can hope for it.

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

Power to the peaceful!

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

When one person is having a low energy day, the other can step it up. There's a collective amount of energy, and we're each on different levels each day.