We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

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I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

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Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

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Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

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