I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
Writing has. . . been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
To live is to war with trolls.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart. . . nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
Some students went to Milarepa and said, we should stop living in caves and meditating because we should go out and help beings as bodhisattvas. And Milarepa said that as long as space exists, so long will there be beings for you to help.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.