The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

I think my life did go the way it was supposed to go for me.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.