Intelligence is derived from two words

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

Unconditional love takes a strong and deliberate evolution. Unconditional love is way beyond emotional involvement. This is loving the person inside the person… loving their very soul.

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

Look, kid, ” he said, “you don’t spend a lifetime in comedy without learning a thing or two about evil.

Religion is about hospitality and responsibility, and about neighbor/enemy-love-as-self-love in a Christian term that requires one to turn a new _gaze_ onto others––what I call a _cosmopolitan gaze_.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

To have no vision of your own means living the vision of someone else.

Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.