Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

One man with a dream at pleasure Shall go forth and conquer a crown And three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.

We're our own heroes.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don’t try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all plea

Live and dwell in endless possibilities to find out what is possible.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.