As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.

If you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win.

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.