We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.