We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time. . . to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
Touch is the first language we speak.
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.
You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
I suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put you in communication with other people. Most of the really heavy things that happened to me were when I was stoned with other people, - when it get all honest, when it got really high and all golden and beautiful and bright and white-colored under the power of truth, when you looked at them and saw true compassion, and you knew they really did love you, and you knew you really did love them.
I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.
Get your mind unbound and free; and then from the loosest, highest, best place you have, with the fastest and most humorous mind you can get together, you can reach out and make a try at understanding Spirit.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
More matter with less art.
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.
If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy. . . If she's thankful to me, my life will be better. . . she will do something for me.