People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.
Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.
Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.
I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.