To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Leaps of faith tend to favour those with long legs.

We should express our daily gratitude to our Heavenly Father for He's our God, He's our righteousness. He's the breather of life.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.