One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

Art should be waged like war.

I think it's wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one's needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it's only one way.

We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

I think that's the key [of communication] - to not use one method of communication for all people.

I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

You love someone, not because of what they are, but because of how you feel about them.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.

He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled. "Mmmm, " he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.