I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination
If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No. "
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
I went out to dinner with a Marine last weekend. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds. " I go, "I'll just have toast, then. "
There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.
Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.
Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back. ' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'
I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation. . . they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.
We all are born mad. Some remain so.
To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.