I came through and I shall return.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'
You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.
Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.
There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.