We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say,"If you need,you will reap." It says,"If you plant you will reap."The guys says,"I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.