... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and that surrounds the physical.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.