Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It’s a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

Death is just one more Path. One you'll come to in time.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.

Be a voice not an echo.

You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's nothing to be afraid of. You are Safe.

I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.