When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

Life is not for the faint hearted

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

Travelling on the known path is intelligence

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

I'm a one-woman guy. I think that if you can find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you should marry them instantly, and try to stay married.

... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.