Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.