Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

Right wins only when we dare and act.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

I was fortunate enough to coach the US Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they take away a sport like that?