Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

Only by spending and investing love you can get it back. You are adorned with unlimited love, so spend it as much as you can, as fast as you can.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

I love the feel of good quality Italian black lace that feels delicate and really feminine.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

The earth is one tiny part of a vast energy net work.