...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.

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

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

I have a real pet peeve for women who play damaged characters but don't look damaged.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.