I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.