it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.

The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.