The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.

How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)

Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity.

A lie by choice will force you to a thousand unavoidable lies.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!