There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

His voice was everything she equated with home.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.