Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.