Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Being different is the only way to live

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

I've done a lotta big things.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Regret is such a pointless emotion.

I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.