The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

no life of faith can be lived privately. There must be an overflow into the lives of others.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.

I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

God isn't who we hope He is. God is who His word says He is.

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.