This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.

There are no throwaway people.

There are no flaws in the soul of every human being.

The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

When you sit in meditation, feel the joy in your soul.

Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.

Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma, tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.

If success was an overnight journey, its prize would become valueless.

James Bond: a paid assassin of plutocratic cartels, a womanizer, a dipsomaniac, a speed demon, a materialist.

If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

You don’t swing where you sleep.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.