...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

I lead my life as normal.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.