I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
There are jokes I know I want to tell, and there's sort of a rough order, but usually I try to change it up every show, to improvise and talk with the audience. I think when you tell jokes, if you're not careful, you can end up telling the whole list of jokes and then that's it. And that can get a little boring.
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
Hidden nature is secret God.
The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love.