Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

How you approach something determines what you will see.

It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.

You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

I had a dream about you

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.