“People are often being reactive instead of being proactive in reducing dangerous threats.”

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

“Where is the miracle in Jesus being dead in the tomb instead of being alive just as the people expected Jonah to be dead inside a fish?”

“So many people are living from strategy instead of from authenticity. So many people are being strategic instead of honest; both with themselves and with others.”

“(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect… you know… like being people.”

“Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.”

“(I’ve often noticed that people equate “having a sense of humour” with “being an insensitive moron.”)”

“Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.”

“There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.”

“The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.”