Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

The MS really started going downhill in 1990.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.