Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.