You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

We are floating with the stream of time like a bubble with a stream of water.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

I didn't make it to where I am today because of the support, more so because of the lack of it.

When everybodys clicking, we can put a lot of runs on the board.

Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.