I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

Action often precedes the feeling.