The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

All literature is political.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.