I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.
You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
