Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.

The dying need only a hand to hold and a quiet in which to make their departure.

There is not a single dying human being who does not yearn for love, touch, understanding, and whose heart does not break from the withdrawal of those who should be drawing near.

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.