Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart and the world's.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.