“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

“Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.”

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception… you see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

“Whenever we judge others, it emanates from our fear, and separation. When you feel separate from everything around you, then you judge it. When you are connected to something, there is no need to judge.”

“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”

“We said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”