The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.