Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.

The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.

Parents’ transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

...Life is much simpler if you don’t notice anything....

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.