Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night...

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

As Buddhists, our only task is to keep our room clean.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.