Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in our daily lives, for all beings and for life itself.

If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I’d marry him too.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.

One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.