As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

If the thunder is not loud the peasant forgets to cross himself.

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

Potential means you haven't done anything yet.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

But “no” is the button that keeps us on.

Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.