"A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt."

“Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.”

“True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.”

“Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.”

“I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.”

“One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.”

“As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.”

Source : Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

“I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.”

“If you hate something, it bonds you to the thing you hate.”