So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

Live your life, no matter what that life is.

Listening to your heartbeats, I will fall asleep.

This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.

Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.