We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
Pursue the obstacle It will set you free
Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.
I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
As the seed buried in the earth cannot imagine itself as an orchid or hyacinth, neither can a heart packed with hurt imagine itself loved or at peace. The courage of the seed is that once cracking, it cracks all the way.
Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"
Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable
Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.