I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

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

What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.