Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.